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D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009
Gretchen Gueguen |
Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search.   |
Smithsonian
April 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Invention at Play The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009
Middleton & Conner |
Volunteer Voices Volunteer Voices, Tennessee's statewide digitization program, promotes resource sharing among libraries. |
D-Lib
June 2005
Michalak, Madsen & Hurst |
The Open Collections Program Harvard resources that are digitized using the program are organized by topic, enabling interested people worldwide to easily access relevant information. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
Information Today
September 25, 2014 |
ProQuest History Vault Puts Edison Papers on Display ProQuest History Vault added materials from Rutgers University's Thomas A. Edison Papers Project to its database. |
D-Lib
September 2002 |
Australian Museums & Galleries Online Australian Museums & Galleries Online serves as a portal to Australia's cultural heritage, providing a single web site entry point to a large percentage of Australia's museums and galleries, as well as preserving and promoting Australia's cultural identity worldwide. |
D-Lib
June 2003
Feldman & Manring |
PapaInk: The Children's Art Archive PapaInk is the archival home of children's art. The nonprofit organization's archival site documents and exhibits children's art collections from its own physical holdings and presents works donated or shared by organizations and individuals worldwide. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Nakasone & Sheffield |
Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project We explain the descriptive metadata used for field books, which share characteristics of museum, archives, and library objects, and explain why schemas were chosen, and how they are used. |
Information Today
March 21, 2011 |
New National Portal to Historic Collections American Heritage and the American Association for State and Local History are developing a new National Portal to Historic Collections, a system that allows searches through dozens of historic collections. |
Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
D-Lib
September 2000
Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |
D-Lib
May 2000 |
The Department of Entomology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution's Department of Entomology web site was designed primarily for researchers in the field of entomology. |
Information Today
August 3, 2009 |
IMLS Preservation Grant Guidelines Available Bank of America is partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to provide grants to small museums, libraries, and archives. |
Information Today
July 7, 2008 |
Missouri Launches Collaborative Historical Search Portal Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state's local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. |
AskMen.com
March 19, 2003
Steve Richer |
How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Nuala A. Bennett |
Illinois Digital Cultural Heritage Community Collaborative interactions among libraries, museums and elementary schools... |
Information Today
June 17, 2013 |
Gale-Smithsonian Partnership's Magazine Archive Goes Live Earlier this year, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to create library and academic resources by digitizing some of the Smithsonian's collections. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Peter Kosewski |
Digital Technology Opens Harvard's Library Collections to the World Visitors to the Harvard Libraries web site can find and use thousands of individual digital materials from the Harvard collections. |
D-Lib
June 2008
Susan Schreibman |
D-Lib Featured Collection May/June 2008: University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections In November 2007 University of Maryland Libraries announced its digital collections portal. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Waibel et al. |
Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share The Museum Data Exchange, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brought together nine art museums and OCLC Research to model data sharing in the museum community. |
D-Lib
May 2006
Mankita, Meltzer & Harris |
A Handful of Things: Calisphere's Themed Collections from the California Digital Library The University of California, California Digital Library is developing and implementing strategies that will modify its university- and research-oriented digital collections to make them available to non-university audiences in an attractive and usable format. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Ann Lally |
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections Materials in the University's Digital Collections are diverse and reflect the strength of the UW Libraries collections. Particularly noteworthy collections include: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Database... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004 |
FYI ... ArtSite and ArtWebsite ArtSite and ArtWebsite are two programs that allow teachers and students to publish their art portfolios on the Internet or on their school's intranet. |
D-Lib
December 2004
David Green |
How Fares the Wired Museum? Report on the 32nd Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network which has been a leading agent in museums' use of computers from improving operational efficiency to animating collections and connecting them to a wider world. |
Information Today
February 7, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
D-Lib
May 2002 |
In Brief Forum on Information Standards in Heritage Launches New Web Site... The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library... Scholars Portal Project Launched... Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art... Remaking Libraries for the Global Knowledge Renaissance... etc. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Ed Galloway |
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections is part of the Historic Pittsburgh web site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library (DRL). |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
Information Today
October 8, 2015 |
Ringgold Adds New Classification System to Its Identify Database The company consulted with its customers about how they classify their records, and it developed a schema for nine new classifications for organizations that will enhance the existing ones. |
D-Lib
February 2006
Erika Dowell |
D-Lib Featured Collection February 2006: The Lilly Library The Lilly Library, like other special collections libraries, is poised between the print and the digital worlds. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
D-Lib
June 2009
Cindy Boeke |
Southern Methodist University's Digital Collections Bringing Central University Libraries' Special Collections to the World |
Searcher
September 2004
Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Terri Geitgey |
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region More than 110,000 records and 6,000 images populate the twelve collections composing the project. The collections are listed and briefly summarized. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Alexander Street Press Jazzes Up Its Collections In 2011, Alexander Street's plan is for Music Online to hit the milestone of 1 million recordings. The company also promises no price increases. |
Smithsonian
April 2004 |
Photos for All Time A new book, At First Sight, draws on all the Smithsonian's vast archives to chart photograph's profound place in history |
Science News
February 14, 2009
Sid Perkins |
Book Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey Museums are more than collections of art and artifacts: They're collections of the people who work there. |
D-Lib
September 2005 |
Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections Museums have seen an opportunity to move beyond uni-directional communication into an environment that engages their users and reflects a multiplicity of perspectives. |
Information Today
March 11, 2013
Marydee Ojala |
Bringing the Smithsonian to a Library Near You, Thanks to Cengage Learning A licensing agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will see Gale digitizing some Smithsonian archives and creating searchable databases, available by subscription for libraries of all types. |
Information Today
April 23, 2012 |
Academic Video Database Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM's academic video database to the Base Index of EDS and allows mutual customers to access the full video database. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Ian H. Witten |
Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software The Greenstone digital library software is an open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. It builds collections with effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use... |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
Nichole L. Torres |
Ready to Launch Morph your invention from a concept into a company with these programs. |
Information Today
June 4, 2012 |
Innovative Interfaces Launches Content Pro IRX Innovative Interfaces announced that development for its new institutional repository module, Content Pro IRX, is complete and several library partners will begin beta testing this month. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
D-Lib
April 2007
Melissa McLimans |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2007: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center has added over a thousand audio files, nearly a thousand books, and dozens of videos over the past year, totaling over 320,000 new digital objects. |
Information Today
January 26, 2012 |
Gale Outlines First Archives for Nineteenth Century Collections Online Gale announced the source libraries, collections, and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, its global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare 19th-century primary source content. |
